[Glade-devel] One preview per "topmost" widget

[Tristan Van Berkom]

2010/10/30 Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita at gmail.com>:
> 2010/10/30 Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>:
>> 2010/10/30 Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita at gmail.com>:
>>> This is my plan to implement one preview per "topmost" widget in glade:
>>>
>>>  - Escalate the widget tree (using gtk_widget_get_parent).
>>>  - Check (using gtk_widget_get_name and a list of the names of
>>> widgets currently been previewed) if such widget is already been
>>> previewed.
>>>    - If it is already been previewed, update the whole interface.
>>>    - If not, launch a preview.
>>
>> Perhaps GladePreview object must be an object belonging
>> to the GladeWidget itself... when the toplevel gets a parent
>> added to it... the preview should then be placed on the parent.
>>
>
> Hmmm... This is fundamentally different from what we're doing right
> now. What you're proposing would include an api extension to
> GladeWidget so that it would have a preview method and take care to
> kill the previewer process by the destructor (most of it is treated by
> GladeProject now), is that?
>

No, that code must be moved into a GladePreview object anyway,
other than that yes the preview would have to be launched by
GladeWidget.